The Catastrophe: Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (1987)
Country: India
Language: Assamese
Year: 1987
Color/BW: COLOR
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Description
Rakheswar is a farmer who leads a simple life with his wife Taru and two children. The paddy from their small plot of land serves as their main means of livelihood. Rakheswar along with the other farmers is waiting for the already delayed rains to fall, to start their ploughing. The monsoons arrive and Rakheswar is overjoyed. As he gets ready to plough Sanatan, rich man of the village, confronts him and claims the land to be his as per the year's settlement. He informs the stunned Rakheswar that the land was pledged to him by his father and was never redeemed.
